Texas will elect one U.S. Senator and 38 members to its U.S. House delegation.
Ken Paxton, who defeated Senator John Cornyn in the primary, is the Republican nominee for the Senate seat; he has raised nearly $9M from individuals. The race is considered “Lean Republican” by The Cook Political Report. James Talarico, who won the Democratic nomination, has raised nearly $65M; 57% of his funds take the form of small contributions.
Three Democratic incumbent women – Elizabeth Fletcher (TX-7), Veronica Escobar (TX-16), and Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) – are running for reelection; Fletcher is white and Escobar and Garcia are Latinas. Two Republican incumbent women are running for reelection: Monica De La Cruz (TX-15) and Beth Van Duyne (TX-24). Representative De La Cruz, who is Latina, with nearly $3.3M, has the highest total raised among all the women. Forty-one percent of her funds take the form of small contributions. Representative Van Duyne is white. Democratic Representative Julie Johnson (TX-33), who is white, lost her primary.
Of the U.S. House incumbents, the two Republican women reported a higher average total raised than the fifteen incumbent Republican men, whereas the average amount raised by the Democratic women is far lower than the average raised by the Democratic men.
Only one U.S. House seat (TX-34) is considered competitive by The Cook Political Report. Both nominees – Representative Vicente Gonzalez (D) and Eric Flores (R) – are men. Each has raised about $1.9M.
Across the open-seat races, the average raised by Republican women is higher than the average raised by Republican men; however, there are far fewer women running in these contests than men. The top fundraiser in contests for open seats is Republican Mark Teixeira (TX-21) with nearly $3.8M raised. Nationally, in races expected to elect a Republican, Republican women are poorly represented as open-seat candidates.
Men running as challengers for U.S. House seats in Texas have a much higher average total raised than women.
This statistic is the average total amount raised to date from individuals (including self-financing).
Republican men running for U.S. House open seats from Texas have the highest average proportion of funds from self-financing among gender and party candidate groups, with 27%. Democratic women have a lower average percentage of funds from self-financing than Democratic men in open-seat House races in Texas.
Democratic women running in U.S. House open seats in Texas have a slightly higher average proportion of funds from small contributions than their men counterparts. Republican women running in open seats have a lower average percentage of funds from small contributions than Republican men, though there are far fewer Republican women candidates in that group.
This statistic is the average amount from self-financing as a proportion of total raised (from individuals including the candidate) by candidate subgroup. Primary challengers to incumbents are excluded.
This statistic is the average amount of contributions $200 or less as a proportion of total raised (excluding self-financed contributions) by candidate subgroup.